CUBA: Triumphant Reds

Riding high, the Popular Socialist (Communist)
Party, the sole political organization functioning in Cuba, last week
held its first national convention since 1952. For Cuba's 17,000 Reds
it was a dream of power come true. On the platform sat the government's
top labor leaders and Faure Chaumon, the ambassador designate who will
soon go to Moscow and pick up diplomatic relations with Russia. As the
convention gathered, the first Soviet Ambassador to Cuba since 1952,
Sergei Kudriavtsev, once expelled by Canada as a spy, flew into Havana
and got a big welcome....